Abstract: Buffing apparatus including a buffing assembly including a stack of buffing wheels with or without spacers between the rings, compressed under high pressure. Each wheel includes a clinch ring which in turn secures an annulus of fabric extending radially therefrom. Each spacer includes a ring; they may be the remnants of used buffing wheels. The wheels and spacers, if any, are contiguous forming an inner cylindrical surface of the rings. Steel straps extend axially along this inner surface, the straps being secured by metal inert-gas welding to the rings at the ends of the stack. The pressure between the buffing wheels and any spacers of the stacks is so high as to suppress any tendency of the wheels or spacers to slip circumferentially with respect to each other when the stack is under high tangential force in use. The straps serve to be engaged by the keys of a drive shaft to drive the buffing apparatus.